But where, O son of Hur, where is the king himself?
Is he fallen into nothingness?
Two thousand years have gone since he was a man alive as you and I are.

Was his last breath the end of him?
"To say yes would be to accuse God; let us rather accept his better plan of attaining life after death for us--actual life, I mean--the something more than a place in mortal memory; life with going and coming, with sensation, with knowledge, with power and all appreciation; life eternal in term though it may be with changes of condition.
"Ask you what God's plan is?
The gift of a Soul to each of us at birth, with this simple law--there shall be no immortality except through the Soul.

In that law see the necessity of which I spoke.
"Let us turn from the necessity now.

A word as to the pleasure there is in the thought of a Soul in each of us.

In the first place, it robs death of its terrors by making dying a change for the better, and burial but the planting of a seed from which there will spring a new life.